There are numerous companies you can utilize to obtain your domain name but we refer all of our clients to www.domaintools.com since have the most reliable service and best reputation.

How do I know if my domain name is available?

The easiest way to accomplish this is to do a search (better known as a whois look-up) for the domain name you would like. The most utilized of these is www.internic.net because their database covers domain names ending in the following context: .aero, .arpa, .biz, .com, .coop, .edu, .info, .int, .museum, .net and .org. Another alternative to Internic is www.betterwhois.com but it gives you the same results. Should you need to do a whois look-up on a domain name that ends with .us then you will need to utilize www.whois.us in order to check the availability.

What if the domain name I want is taken?

You may want to consider using another extension on the end of your domain name. For instance if you chose www.yourdomain.com and it was already taken you may want to consider www.yourdomain.net as an alternative. Another way is to place a hyphen between the words of your name. Be careful here though as you can get in serious trouble with copyright infringement and have serious legal problems so check very carefully on copyright laws before just assuming a hyphen will work. Check out the law on copyrights here www.copyright.gov.

How do I know what to call my domain?

When selecting a domain name try to make sure the name reflects your business in a positive venue and if possible what your business represents. A good example of this would be www.ibm.com or www.att.com.

Can you assist me in finding a domain name?

Yes, just ask and we will be more than happy to assist you in finding just the right domain name for your business at no charge to you.

Do you offer auto responders?

Of course, just ask us to set this up free of charge. Be sure you tell us how you want your automatic response to read.

How do I get listed in the search engines?

Most of today's search engines utilize robots better known as spiders to crawl the web and look for new web sites and changes to existing web sites about every 30 days. Most search engines have a place where you can manually add your web site. Some of these charge a fee for immediate inclusion in their search engines. Others such as Google do not charge but then again you can not pay for your placement in this search engine as it is all based upon an algorithm for page rank based upon external links that are linking to your site.

How do I optimize my site for search engine placement?

This is a field that continues to be in the forefront of discussion among today's web masters and there are a lot of different opinions as to how best to accomplish this. Suffice it to say here that you need to make sure you have the correct META_TAGS such as "title", "description" and "keywords" in that order so that the search engine spiders pick your site up and rank it highly according to your web site content. Learn more by downloading the "1-Hour Search Engine Optimization Course" .

What is your monthly maintenance fee for?

Our monthly maintenance includes hosting your web site, your monthly bandwidth, e-mail accounts, any and all site modifications as requested. Monitoring your stats, marketing, managing and optimizing your site. Monthly search engine submissions. Banner ad placement, link exchanges as well as  all troubleshooting. To put this in simple terms look at this example: You choose Domain 2 which has a monthly maintenance fee of $59.95. This means it is costing you $1.97 a day for all of these services, less than it costs for a hamburger, well worth the price.

Can I make changes to my own web site?

Yes you may, we have Frontpage Extensions installed as well as FTP to make it easy for our clients.

Do you offer DNS forwarding?

Yes, just give us the domain name and where to forward it to and you are all set, no charge, assuming that both are using our name servers.

Can I install my own CGI scripts?

Yes, all of our clients have free CGI access.

What kind of e-mail account will I have?

Your e-mail account is a POP3 for incoming and SMTP for outgoing that requires authentication. An example: sales@yourdomainname.com.

Can I FTP to my site:

Yes, just let us know up front that you would like FTP access and we will set this feature up for you.

Can I create a "list server"?

Yes, send us the information you want included and we will create one for you. There is an additional $10.00 a month charge for this service.

May I have a forum?

Certainly, and we will gladly customize it to your specifications. There is an additional $20.00 a month charge for this due to the bandwidth and increase in disk space utilized.

Is there a chat room?

Just ask us to set this up for you and there is only a $5.00 a month charge for this feature.

Is there Spam protection?

Just ask and we will enable "Spam Assassin" for e-mail box. There is a $2.00 a month charge for this service.

Can I have SSH access to my web site?

Yes you can but you need to let us know you would like this feature on the front end so that it can be installed for you. There is no charge for this feature.

Are there "sendmail" features available?

Yes, but a modified version without the known security holes. Just ask and we can install this for you free of charge.

Do you offer SSL?

All of our clients receive free SSL secure server.

Is there free support?

All of our clients receive free support.

Is PHP available?

We offer complete PHP support.

What programming languages are supported?

We offer support for Perl 5, TCL, C++, Python and Java.

Is there e-mail alias available?

Yes, just give us the e-mail address you want to forward to and we'll take care of this for you.